What’s funny is this is such a thing as water intoxication. Whenever someone goes on how dangerous vaccines are like yesterday when someone posted a meme on facebook about all the drugs you have to call poison control if you take too many of them I remind them of this. Remember the chemistry saying “the dose makes the poison”. Another favorite of mine is to remind people that o2 is toxic in high doses.

As a chemist, we are required to have a MSDS (data sheet) for every chemical in the lab. We have thousands of these (typically 5 page documents). All of them are about as useful as this one, but somehow it makes us safer to have these sheets. Sand is another funny one to read. The beach is very dangerous with both sand and water.

I wonder: if I skipped my next doctor's appointment and explained that it was because I got into the shower and was stuck in there for days, what with rinsing my eyes out with water for a never-ending series of 15-minute cycles and constantly having to re-soap myself to wash the water off my skin, until my roommate finally called the fire department to drag me out of there and get all the water off my skin and out of my eyes, do you think she'd start a blog?

Like Anon at 4:13 said, in the lab we have to have MSDS sheets for everything. My favourite was the one for a brick. We use deionized water for our experiments, and one of the lab techs used to drink it. We had to explain that deionized water is bad for you.

Actually, I am surprised that they leave out the most important warning of all - never use water on your gizmo. That will cause it to multiply and turn into gremlins that will run terror all over your town.

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